Legal Opinion
Doe v. Civiletti
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 15, 1980No. 151, Docket 79-6250PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
Aware that threats of retaliation were discouraging Government witnesses from testifying against participants in organized crime, Congress ten years ago passed Title V of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. The law authorized the Attorney General to provide for the protection and subsistence of persons who might testify for the Government, or did so testify, at the trials of organized crime figures. It vested the Attorney General with broad discretion to determine which witnesses would receive Government protection, and to decide how that protection would…
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